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GAO-12-835R 1 (2012-06-27)

handle is hein.gao/gaobacgfl0001 and id is 1 raw text is: Accountabiliy - Integrity - Reliability United States Government Accountability Office Washington, DC 20548 June 27, 2012 Congressional Committees Subject: National Mediation Board Mandates in the FAA Modernization and Reform Act of 2012 This letter is to confirm our approach to the work mandated for GAO in the FAA Modernization and Reform Act of 2012, Pub. L. No. 112-95, § 1004, pertaining to the National Mediation Board (NMB) and discussions with your staff regarding these mandates. The first mandate required GAO to review, within 180 days, the processes applied by the NMB to certify and decertify representation of employees by labor organizations, including the existing processes, changes to such processes over time, and the extent to which those processes are consistent with the processes of other agencies with jurisdiction over labor relations.1 The second mandate required GAO to evaluate and audit, within 2 years, the programs, operations, activities, and expenditures of the NMB.2 As described below, we discussed with your staff and they concurred with our proposal to terminate our work on the 180-day mandate and begin working on the 2-year mandate. We met with your staff on May 3, 2012, and contacted them later by e-mail with a proposal regarding the information that we could report in response to the first mandate. Subsequently, as described below, the Congressional Research Service (CRS) issued a comprehensive report on May 11, 2012, entitled Federal Labor Relations Statutes: An Overview, that addresses key questions posed by the first mandate.3 The information provided in the CRS report is very similar to the information we proposed to report in order to respond to the 180-day mandate on NMB's certification and decertification procedures. 1 See Pub. L. No. 112-95, § 1004, 126 Stat. 11, 147 (adding Railway Labor Act § 15(b)). 2 See Pub. L. No. 112-95, § 1004, 126 Stat. 11, 147 (adding Railway Labor Act § 15(a)). 3 Congressional Research Service, Federal Labor Relations Statutes: An Overview, R42526 (Washington, D.C.: May 11, 2012). GAO-12-835R National Mediation Board Page 1

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